Culture & Languages
Heaven and Hell in Europe
I just got back from one week of training ( yes, I din’t have to work at all this week!!). It was my first truly cross-European experience, as the training had representatives from almost all the European countries. Add to it the fact the faculty who taught the course was comprised of an American, [...]
Guess who else was feeling out of place!
“I have been a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at homenowhere..I cannot be of the [West]. But in my own country, also, sometimes, I have an exile’s feeling”
- Jawaharlal Nehru.
Confusion O confusion
There are certain things that most people take for granted that I have to think for a moment. Like for example, the floor that I need to go to - do I count the ground floor as 1 or 0? I rem when I was a kid, we used to count ground as 0, and [...]
Languages or Dialects?
When I tell people that my mother tongue is Malayalam, first they look at me like I am playing a tongue-twister game and then a good % of them follow up with ” Oh, so that is an Indian dialect”. And I ever so patiently try to explain that Malayalam is not a “dialect”, it [...]
Mark Twain, Aint u the best!
‘The Awful German Language’ by Mark Twain is a must-read for anyone who knows anything about this language! It is hilarious! And I am just at that learning-German-phase where I can absolutely empathize with whats written there. Its a bit of a long read, so for the not-so-interested, try these excerpts:
1) Every noun has a [...]
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